Four held after man robbed at meeting arranged on social media
Police on Sunday arrested four people in connection with an armed robbery earlier in the day in Nicosia. According to a police announcement, a 27-year-old...
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Paphos municipality offer a new quick-fix pothole service
Paphos municipality is tackling the problem of dangerous numerous potholes in the roads and in the fastest way possible, by using social media and getting...
Spread of social media threatens the holders of power
By Farid Mirbagheri Social media has played a significant role in the world of politics. In the United States alone this revolutionary medium of communication helped...
Archbishop called out for ‘callous’ cancer remark
Archbishop Chrysostomos sparked public ire this week after a comment he made about his battle with cancer. Commenting on his condition, the Church primate said...
Facebook struggles into day 2 of global outage (update)
March 13 (Reuters) – Instagram is back up after suffering a partial outage for over several hours, the photo-sharing social network platform said in a...
Under three-quarters of businesses have own websites
Just over 70 per cent of Cypriot companies had their own websites in 2018, slightly down over the previous year but under half of the...
Man remanded for blackmailing girls into sending nude photos
A 20-year-old man from Nicosia was remanded on Monday for eight days after allegedly blackmailing three underage girls between the ages of 12 and 14...
Like me in order to like you, love me in order to love you!
By Christos P. Panayiotides THE MOBILE telephone and all the applications or “apps”, which go with it, have compressed time and distance to negligible proportions,...
7 tips in marketing your business through Social Media
Modern society revolves around technology and mobile devices. These days, you can find your potential customers on social media platforms and promote your business. But...
Facebook, Twitter face U.S. Congress over politics and the internet
Top Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc executives will defend their companies before U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday, with Facebook insisting it takes election interference seriously and...
White House probes Google after Trump accuses it of bias
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Google’s search engine of promoting negative news articles and hiding “fair media” coverage of him, vowing to address...
Apple, YouTube, and others drop conspiracy theorist Jones
Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc’s YouTube, Facebook Inc and Spotify all took down podcasts and channels from U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, saying on Monday that...
Politis the latest victim of social media threats
By Lizzy Ioannidou Just days after Politis journalist Costas Constandinou received threats to his life via social media, the newspaper itself was a target of...
Facebook is sued after stock plunge ‘shocked’ market
Facebook Inc and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg were sued on Friday in what could be the first of many lawsuits over a disappointing earnings...
Cyprus included in Europol competition to track down fugitives
Europol will launch a public ‘competition’ on Thursday morning to help them catch Europe’s most-wanted fugitives, among them one wanted by Cypriot authorities, by...
Messages and hashtags: Thai cave rescue dominates social media
Audiences around the world cheered the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a cave in Thailand with messages of support as the...
How to ‘fix’ social media without censorship
By David Kaye The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal may have changed the way millions of people perceive the risks to privacy when they go online. But it...
Government warns of fake Anastasiades accounts on social media
The government warned on Wednesday that in recent days accounts have appeared on social media under the name of President Nicos Anastasiades that are fake....
Police chief rebukes media for their reporting of double murder
The double murder in Nicosia some two weeks ago is on the way to being resolved, the chief of police said on Wednesday, before...
Britain to regulate young people’s use of social media
Britain’s health minister Jeremy Hunt threatened to impose new regulations on social media firms unless they do more to protect young people using their services....
